Next of kin plaque: Driver Percy George Whittall, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'PERCY GEORGE WHITTALL'. A checker's mark, '14', is impressed between the lion's rear right paw and tail.

Born at Mount Victoria, New South Wales, and educated in Sydney, Percy George Whittall was employed as a surveyor's assistant at Mullumbimby when he enlisted in the AIF at Enoggera, Queensland on 9 September1914, aged 25. He had worked as a station hand, and had served briefly in the 4th Light Horse Regiment (Hunter River Lancers), before moving north to Mullumbimby.

Whittall was posted a driver, service number 236, to A Squadron, 2nd Light Horse Regiment. The unit embarked from Brisbane on 24 September, aboard HMAT A25 Anglo-Egyptian. In Egypt the regiment undertook further training before landing at Gallipoli, without its horses, on 12 May 1915.

Ordered to attack the Turks near Quinn's Post on 7 August as a feint to the main attack at Lone Pine, the regiment's commanding officer called it off after his first wave of attackers had been mown down with the loss of 17 killed and 36 wounded. Whittall was among those killed. His body was not recovered for burial in a military cemetery after the war and his name is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli.

Whittall's father, Percy, died in 1920. This memorial plaque was sent to his widowed mother, Grace, in August 1922. Whittall's bothers, Howard and Edward, also served in the war and survived.